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. 12.5 Bookstores See also: Transportation in Miami Traditional rivals of the FIU Panthers include Florida Atlantic University and the University of Miami the Panthers football team competes in the annual Shula Bowl a yearly football game played for the Don Shula Award against in-state rival Florida Atlantic University Due to this competition in the Shula Bowl the rivalry between the two schools has grown with the rivalry extending into the men's baseball and basketball teams as well! Florida has 67 counties Some reference materials may show only 66 because Duval County is consolidated with the City of Jacksonville There are 379 cities in Florida (out of 411) that report regularly to the Florida Department of Revenue but there are other incorporated municipalities that do not the state government's primary revenue source is sales tax Florida does not impose a personal income tax the primary revenue source for cities and counties is property tax; unpaid taxes are subject to tax sales which are held (at the county level) in May and (due to the extensive use of online bidding sites) are highly popular! ! Broadview Park The area from Orlando to the tip of the Florida peninsula was at one point a single drainage unit When rainfall exceeded the capacity of Lake Okeechobee and the Kissimmee River floodplain it spilled over and flowed in a southwestern direction to empty into Florida Bay Prior to urban and agricultural development in Florida the Everglades began at the southern edge of Lake Okeechobee and flowed for approximately 100 miles (160 km) emptying into the Gulf of Mexico the limestone shelf is wide and slightly angled instead of having a narrow deep channel characteristic of most rivers the vertical gradient from Lake Okeechobee to Florida Bay is about 2 inches (5.1 cm) per mile creating an almost 60-mile (97 km) wide expanse of river that travels about half a mile (0.8 km) a day This slow movement of a broad shallow river is known as sheetflow and gives the Everglades its nickname River of Grass Water leaving Lake Okeechobee may require months or years to reach its final destination Florida Bay the sheetflow travels so slowly that water is typically stored from one wet season to the next in the porous limestone substrate the ebb and flow of water has shaped the land and every ecosystem in South Florida throughout the Everglades' estimated 5,000 years of existence the motion of water defines plant communities and how animals adapt to their habitats and food sources, See also: List of Florida locations by per capita income, Schall Circle The city's name is derived from the Miami River which is ultimately derived from the Mayaimi people who lived in the area at the time of European colonization. 42nd Mayor of Miami, Public Affairs 64 There were three phases of internationalization according to Hymer's work the first phase of Hymer's work was his dissertation in 1960 called the International Operations of National Firms in this thesis the author departs from neoclassical theory and opens up a new area of international production at first Hymer started analyzing neoclassical theory and financial investment where the main reason for capital movement is the difference in interest rates After this analysis Hymer analyzed the characteristics of foreign investment by large companies for production and direct business purposes calling this Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) by analyzing the two types of investments Hymer distinguished financial investment from direct investment the main distinguishing feature was control Portfolio investment is a more passive approach and the main purpose is financial gain whereas in foreign direct investment a firm has control over the operations abroad So the traditional theory of investment based on differential interest rates does not explain the motivations for FDI. 3.3 Ranking Wolfsonian Library Main article: Seminole I-195.svg Interstate 195 / Toll Florida 112.svg State Road 112 (Airport Expressway). With an educational system made up of public school districts and independent private institutions Florida had 2,833,115 students enrolled in 4,269 public primary secondary and vocational schools in Florida's 67 regular or 7 special school districts as of 2018 Miami-Dade County is the largest of Florida's 67 regular districts with over 350 thousand students and Jefferson is the smallest with less than one thousand students Florida spent $8,920 for each student in 2016 and was 43rd in the nation in expenditures per student.

Citrus canker continues to be an issue of concern From 1997 to 2013 the growing of citrus trees has declined 25% from 600,000 acres (240,000 ha) to 450,000 acres (180,000 ha) Citrus greening disease is incurable a study states that it has caused the loss of $4.5 billion between 2006 and 2012 as of 2014 it was the major agricultural concern, Hurricane season officially runs from June 1 through November 30 although hurricanes can develop outside that period the most likely time for South Florida to be hit is during the peak of the Cape Verde season mid-August through the end of September Due to its location between two major bodies of water known for tropical activity South Florida is also statistically the most likely major area to be struck by a hurricane in the world trailed closely by Nassau Bahamas and Havana Cuba Many hurricanes have affected the metropolis including Betsy in 1965 Andrew in 1992 Irene in 1999 Hurricanes Katrina and Wilma in 2005 and Irma in 2017 in addition a tropical depression in October 2000 passed over the city causing record rainfall and flooding Locally the storm is credited as the No Name Storm of 2000 though the depression went on to become Tropical Storm Leslie upon entering the Atlantic Ocean. When Crandon Park got a zoo Virginia Key Beach got a pond with ornamental plants and so things began to change When wealthy residents of Key Biscayne and nearby Fisher Island needed a place to dump their garbage and pump their sewage the breezes on Virginia Key Beach turned sour the water clouded with effluents the long-term environmental impact has yet to be fully determined Still Virginia Key Beach remained a popular even sacred place within Miami's Black community! Dade County was created on January 18 1836 under the Territorial Act of the United States the county was named after Major Francis L Dade a soldier killed in 1835 in the Second Seminole War at what has since been named the Dade Battlefield At the time of its creation Dade County included the land that now contains Palm Beach and Broward counties together with the Florida Keys from Bahia Honda Key north and the land of present-day Miami-Dade County the county seat was originally at Indian Key in the Florida Keys; then in 1844 the County seat was moved to Miami the Florida Keys from Key Largo to Bahia Honda were returned to Monroe County in 1866 in 1888 the county seat was moved to Juno near present-day Juno Beach Florida returning to Miami in 1899 in 1909 Palm Beach County was formed from the northern portion of what was Dade County and then in 1915 Palm Beach County and Dade County contributed nearly equal portions of land to create what is now Broward County There have been no significant boundary changes to the county since 1915! The zip codes for Downtown include 33128 33130 33131 and 33132 the area covers 2.117 square miles (5.48 km2) as of 2000 there were 6,451 males and 4,792 females the median age for males were 34.5 years old while the median age for females were 35.8 years old the average household size had 1.9 people while the average family size had 2.8 members the percentage of married-couple families (among all households) was 25.5% while the percentage of married-couple families with children (among all households) was 8.5% and the percentage of single-mother households (among all households) was 5.8% 15.3% of the population was in correctional institutions 1.6% of the population was in other group homes the percentage of never-married males 15 years old and over was 27.6% while the percentage of never-married females 15 years old and over was 13.9%, Cross-national cooperation and agreements have increased, National Universities 187 46%! .